NEW DELHI, Mar 15 (Agencies): India and Pakistan have not held any bilateral trade meeting since 2014 and there is no progress on the agreed road map, the government informed Parliament today.

The commerce ministers of India and Pakistan had met in January 2014 on the sidelines of the 5th SAARC Business Leaders Conclave here.

At that meeting, both the ministers reaffirmed the commitment to expeditiously establish normal trading relations and provide Non-Discriminatory Market Access (NDMA) on a reciprocal basis in this context.

“No bilateral trade meeting between India and Pakistan has taken place since then, and there is no progress on the agreed road map,” Commerce and Industry Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said in a written reply to the Rajya Sabha.

Both the sides have also decided to intensify and accelerate the process of trade normalisation, liberalisation and facilitation.

SRINAGAR, Mar 15: Former chief minister Omar Abdullah today said that another promising young life has been snuffed out by a stray bullet in north Kashmir’s Kupwara district.
He was reacting on the death of a minor girl who police said died after being hit by a “stray bullet” near the encounter site in Kupwara.
“A 6-year old girl killed on the sidelines of an encounter in North Kashmir. A "stray bullet" snuffs out another promising young life. #RIP,” tweeted Omar.